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Vaughn Tan: On Risk and Not-Knowing

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The Importance of Understanding Not Knowing

Vaughn: How entrenched is this way of thinking about not knowing in terms of the tractability of the change that you want to see? I think it's extraordinarily entrenched, a vast quantity of all the social sciences. A huge amount of economic theory and practice depends on the ability to so-called accurately model the causation between actions and given outcomes. Vaughn: The way to affect it is to get businesses, get government agencies, get NGOs to start to just actually use these tools.

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